The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library that has served as a main repository of internet history, is back online with limited functionality after weeks of being harassed by hackers.

News of the DDoS attack (which stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”) broke on October 9, when users attempting to access the Wayback Machine were met with a JavaScript alert that read: “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach?

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up in read-only mode following massive data breaches last week. Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, posted an update on Monday morning on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the site's return in a "provisional manner.

Its Wayback Machine, which lets users view old versions of websites, is back in a read-only manner. The Internet Archive is back online after new of a cyberattack took out its digital library and popular Wayback Machine on October 9.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is back online in a read-only state, after DDoS attacks took the entire platform offline on October 9. Founder Brewster Kahle posted on Monday (via The Verge) that the service is “resumed in a provisional,

The Internet Archive was subjected to a series of DDoS attacks, reportedly by a hacker group called SN_BlackMeta, which rendered the site unusable since October 9. When readers attempted to access the site, they were greeted with a pop-up message stating that the website had experienced a catastrophic security breach.

Launching the Wayback Machine now takes you to the usual page. From here, you can search for archived versions of a page by typing a URL or keywords. With the results that pop up, you're able to pick a specific date in the past and view a snapshot of that page as it was back then.

The Internet Archive was back up yesterday, with some limits, after spending nearly a week offline in the wake of a data breach and denial of service attack. Why it matters: The archive and its Wayback Machine are a unique,

Spread the loveAfter a brief hiatus, the internet’s most beloved time machine, the Wayback Machine, is back online! While the service is currently operating in read-only mode, you can still explore the vast archive of captured websites,

Last week, the Internet Archive and its beloved Wayback Machine was taken down by a hacktivist group who unleashed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the site. Along with that, data for over 31 million user accounts were lost in the cyberattack.

The Internet Archive was shuttered by a hack days ago, but the Wayback Machine is back online, at least for reading. "Please be gentle," writes Brewster Kahle. The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional,